From Che Sent Sat, Jul 11th 1998, 08:17
From Che Sent Sat, Jul 11th 1998, 08:17
Zenon has a very good suggestion here - start with excellent compilations and use them to figure out who & what you like. Before I found IDM (the maillist), I had to rely on comps to point me to new artists. Back in '92 there were some really shitty comps, too (in all fairness, there still are; I've just gotten better at avoiding them). Nowadays I've pretty much can read about something & tell whether I'll like it or not, but that takes practice. I'd recommend buying more Ninja comps (or the earlier domestic Shadow comps of Ninja tracks), but that's just me. :) Che At 09:59 AM 7/10/98 -0400, Zenon M. Feszczak wrote: >Beginner's Guide to IDM? > >Start with some smart comps, and follow the threads that fire your synapses: > >- Artificial Intelligence 1 + 2 > >- Ambient Dub 1,2,3,4 >(U.K. Beyond releases) > >- A.D. 1,2,3,4 >(domestic U.S. Waveform release with much overlap of above) > >- Artcore 1,2,3,4 >- Platinum Breakz 1 >- Torque (No U-Turn) >- Breakbeat Science 1+2 >(yes, must include some jungle, sorry IDM purists) > >- Dream Injection 1,2,3,4,5 >(the K-Tel of IDM, very tasty selection of all the IDM faves) > >- Objets d'Art 1/2 + 3 >(pure dreamy rhythmic fun) > >- 5 Years of Eye-Q >(this will get me booted from the list for sure - trance) > >- Skampler > >- The Knights Who Say Dot > >- A Taste of Pork >(I resisted buying this for a long time as a vegetarian, but whited out the >title and changed it to "A Taste of Tempeh") > >- any Ninja/Ntone comps: >- Flexistentialism (U.K.) etc. >- earthrise.ntone or earthrise.ninja on Shadow (U.S.) > > >That'll break the bank for a while... > >Best, > >3 > > > > >